reading

[DCsleepsalone]

ok so im reading a book...(harry potter 5 never read it but im sorta anticipating book 6 which comes out this summer) and someone calls and say i cant talk because im reading..then they get mad and say whoa whats gotten in to u reading isnt cool! so im just thinking, since when has reading not been cool, maybe not doing anything like that contributes to the slacker image of skaters...yeah..sure..do any of you actually read books sometimes or do u guys think its uncool and for...squares.

[manwithcowhat]

i read a book once... it sucked, but now i have D's in liturature so thats not too good. reading isnt uncool, i just dont like taking time to sit down and do it. id rather be skating...

im tired so if any of this doesnt make sense theres your reason.

[Mrock]

One of my best/favorite subjects in school was English...and at the time, I skated a lot. I just happened to like it, and be decent at it.

[stronghold]

yeah reading is fun..though i hate it.. but if it wasn't for reading.. i would barely know anything about skating.. so i owe some of my knowlege to reading

[Blind Sheppard]

I read alot, i enjoy it. I don't really mind what i read but at the moment i'm reading quite a few fantasys and biographys, it's not uncool. It's something you do, if people don't like it don't tell them.

[pr0o boarder]

Yeah I read a lot too. People think its not cool because it envolves school. But reading is fun. You can learn a lot of things you never knew before.

[mikejl29]

Reading is damn good for you... I read books for school and stuff. Most books suck, but some are actually quite good and worth your time. I'm taking AP English in grade 12 and it's pretty hard, although I am passing it at the moment... right, books...

- Hawk: Occupation Skateboarder
- J.D. Salinger - Catcher In the Rye
- Ray Bradbury - Farenheit 451
- Any books written by Bill Bryson
- Matt Hoffman - The Ride of My Life
- Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
- Erich Maria Remarque - All Quiet On the Western Front
- Clive Cussler books have good adventures.
- Michael Chrichton - The Great Train Robbery
- Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle

Check out any of them.

[R-dude]

I enjoy reading fiction and stuff in the evening to get myself tired so i sleep better....the re-useable sleepin-aid. i never saw it as an uncool thing...

[robiskewl]

haha how old is your friend, like 12? reading isnt lame. what are you doing most of the time you're on the internet? reading.

[DarkHawk2-2]

i read books sometimes. Thing is, i havent read a book for personal enjoyment in QUITE a long time. For lit. though I gotta read whenever a novel is assigned. I enjoy reading. I really do. For the past 3 years though, the time i spent reading went to skating. :-37:

[Mrock]

Fahrenheit 451 rocks. I read that my sophmore year for english class, since we had a choice of books, and I loved it. I really got into it.

[DCsleepsalone]

Originally posted by robiskewl
haha how old is your friend, like 12?

hmm no he just turned 15..maybe he just hasnt grown up yet

[Flipstreetskate]

im a fan of some books, comedy mainly. pick up any woody allen book and im sure youll like it. I don;t read that much outside of homework and stuff. ive never come close to anything lower than an A+ in english in my life and I dont put forth much effort in it either.

[mikejl29]

Maybe he's just illiterate.

[NIGhtMAre]

I read sometimes, not much anymore.

[thrasher]

I read a lot, more then the average highschooler. Reading is definitely good for you, expands you horizons, increases vocabulary, learn more, become a better liar...hahha

[stronghold]

ahaha i had to do farhenheit 451 last year for school, it brought a lot of talk into the class because everyone wanted that book to be burnt. It was really funny, but that book is great anywat

[el_whiteboy8888]

i read all the time. but i rarly put effort into school. i know im never going to college anyway.

[Craig Himself]

Just get a copy of the Catcher In the Rye.....You'll never want to read another book.....

One book i'm reading is called how to be idle. It's a proper book like, it's well good...

[glimmer14]

I am good at math and bad at english, really bad. But I can do math real good.

[grimreaper65]

Originally posted by DCsleepsalone
ok so im reading a book...(harry potter 5 never read it but im sorta anticipating book 6 which comes out this summer) and someone calls and say i cant talk because im reading..then they get mad and say whoa whats gotten in to u reading isnt cool! so im just thinking, since when has reading not been cool, maybe not doing anything like that contributes to the slacker image of skaters...yeah..sure..do any of you actually read books sometimes or do u guys think its uncool and for...squares.

So your friend's saying that being stupid is cool? Cause it's a proven fact that readong increases you intelligence.

[.pie.]

I finished up catch 22 yesterday, pretty good.

[tryhard_skater]

dont worry about what people think. if you like reading, who gives a **** if a couple fags say its for... "squares"

[grindqueen]

don't listen to stupid ****ers that tell you that reading is "uncool" ...i personally like to read but hardly have the time.....

[tryhard_skater]

im guessing that happens when your livin in miami, layin it down all the time. haha i havent read for ages though. the last book i read was 'hatchet'

[SporkOfDoom]

I read all the time...especially during classes that bore me so I don't get in trouble for sleeping. Its like watching tv...only your brain is working...and you do all the directing in your head. :D

[tryhard_skater]

your allowed to read through classes? sleeping? are you in kindergarten? you can tell me

[stronghold]

hehe hatchet.. i had to read that for school as well! good book:D

[BakerStencil]

Originally posted by DCsleepsalone
since when has reading not been cool,


Reading is great, I read all my Skate mags, a few other magazines, and I'm always reading a novel of some sort...Thing is reading isn't being encouraged as much as it used to be. I work in a library and electronics are taking over, we have a talking book for ever book in there, if we don't have it you can order it from another branch...Its a cheaters method of reading but its becoming more and more acceptable.

[chickaboarder13]

that book pulls you in... i can tell you that... waitin for the 6th too :)

[NIGhtMAre]

yea I read all the potter books too...very hard to put down.

Until friends knock on the door.

[It'sFae]

I'm not into reading but I never thought reading was "uncool". I choose not to read because I can't seem to concentrate on the book, so it's hard for me, lol.

[glimmer14]

^^ same with me man, then I got to college and was like dang I better get good at reading so I read like 4 books in a row and my reading is tons better. You should start reading cause it will catch up to you if you go to college.

[PopwarPunk]

Reading is good, the more you read the more you know, and as they say.........Knowledge is Power!

[thrasher]

What kind of books do you folks like? I'm down with action books and, well, a lot of stuff. What about authors? Tom Clancy and the like, John Grisham writes some good books, Dan Brown, Michael Crichton, I love the Lord of the Rings books.

[tryhard_skater]

im on about page 60 of rodney mullens book at the moment. its quite interesting, his life and father and shit. i had no idea he even had one till someone posted about it on another forum. btw its called 'the mutt: how to skateboard and not kill yourself'

[SporkOfDoom]

Originally posted by tryhard_skater
your allowed to read through classes? sleeping? are you in kindergarten? you can tell me

Actually, I'm a senior in high school. -_-;

[iamflameboy]

i'm reading the same book as Craig, how to be idol... it is actually very very interesting.. and i dont read that often

[Dragon]

I read alot if actually get into the book, but in the near future i plan on reading these books:

Lord of the Rings 1, 2 and 3
Interview with a Vampire
Queen of the Damned
Angels and Demons
and
The Da Vinci Code

[DCsleepsalone]

Originally posted by Dragon
The Da Vinci Code

man, now thats a good book

[NIGhtMAre]

Originally posted by tryhard_skater
im on about page 60 of rodney mullens book at the moment. its quite interesting, his life and father and shit. i had no idea he even had one till someone posted about it on another forum. btw its called 'the mutt: how to skateboard and not kill yourself'

thank you:D I'll be sure to check that book out.

[tryhard_skater]

yeh i finished it that same day, couldnt put it down. very interesting book about his life and all his problems and achievements

[Poser Park]

Reading makes you look intelligent. And we all know intelligence leads to the better things in life, for example.


School+Reading+Intelligence=Women

And we all know what women lead to. ;)

[el_whiteboy8888]

...babies, crazed ex's wanting to kill you and drunken fathers... but thats just for the "bad" ones with a ton of problems that are easily suckerd into a guy.

[tryhard_skater]

haha. more skaters should write novels, not gay instruction books. tony hawks 'from boardslide to burnouts' sucked, but im gonna borrow occupation: skateboarder, and hope its good

[sk8ter_37]

i skate i read. but some how i still manage to get bad grades in english.?

[strangerrchickk]

Reading is ok. i used to read alot but ive kinda been slacking this year. When i do read i book i usually do enjoy it though.

[zeronoah]

Originally posted by Mrock
Fahrenheit 451 rocks. I read that my sophmore year for english class, since we had a choice of books, and I loved it. I really got into it.
ive raed it, and i used it as part of my sources for an 8 page persuasive essay i wrote for my composition class, i wrote about music censorship and whatnot. also check out....

A Clockwork Orange
The Universe In A Nutshell

[bmmetcalf]

lol i do nothing in english and i got a A
my school is kewl though
I used to read but i just havnt enjoyed them lately

[sk8ter_37]

reading is the shiznit

[Rastabilly]

I use to like to read and pick books at free will but now Ive moved down to just reading books that you have to that is assigned or for a project. Right now Im reading all quiet on the western front for american world wars. Im like 20 pages from the end and its a damn good book. Im more of a math person then an english person though. Math is where its at.

[NIGhtMAre]

Math is to hard, I don't see how people understand it. :(

[snakeyes17]

Originally posted by tryhard_skater
haha. more skaters should write novels, not gay instruction books. tony hawks 'from boardslide to burnouts' sucked, but im gonna borrow occupation: skateboarder, and hope its good
Occupation Skateboarder is pretty good if thats the one I have which I think I do.

and Bmmetcalf-you say your school is "kewl" but they don't let you skate right?

[Blind Sheppard]

The best book a skater wrote is The Answer is Never - A skateboarders history to the world.

[snakeyes17]

Blind, Who wrote that?

[BakerStencil]

I'm always reading, I can't get to sleep unless I read something, its normaly a national geographic, awake, or a Sci Fi novel.

[snakeyes17]

Oh yeah..I hate fantasy and everything, I just read skate mags and other mags.

[BakerStencil]

anyone ever read "The Concrete Wave." ? Its a history of skateboarding from the 40's and 50's scooter boards with rollerskate wheels to today...I thought it was cool.

[pirate]

lol reading might not be cool to ur mate now lol but do me a favour and go an laugh at him when he's twelth in line for his dole money

[BoardAbuser]

I love reading it so fun to do and it gives you something to do if it rains or something.

[Ramp]